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Issue Details

Issue #84
Published May 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth
Notes Issue reprinted as Special Edition #6 for U.S. Navy w/simplified text. Penciller credit changed from Jack Burnley to Boring as Burnley states he never did this cover.

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Issue reprinted as Special Edition #6 for U.S. Navy w/simplified text. Penciller credit changed from Jack Burnley to Boring as Burnley states he never did this cover.
Reprinted in Special Edition [U.S. Navy] (DC, 1944 series) #6; in Superman: the Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

12 page Superman story "Tommy Gets a Zero"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Tommy Allen; Miss Mentor; Villains: Lame Brain Looie, Dapper.
Synopsis Tommy's teacher assigns a Saturday essay for each class member, although Tommy believes his will be the most boring in class because nothing in his left ever happens that is exciting. That is, until he meets Superman!
Genre superhero
Script Joseph Greene (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-21-07.
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

5 page Hayfoot Henry story "The Sign that Wasn't There"

Characters Hayfoot Henry
Genre detective; humor
Pencils Stan Kaye?
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes Writer credit changed from Alvin Schwartz? to ?by Craig Delich 10-24-08. The Who's Who states that Schwartz only wrote the strip 1946-48. The Kaye credits were also added by Craig Delich, as Kaye did do art for this strip in 1945.

6 page Congo Bill story "Jackals of the Jungle"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Script Writer "D"
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

Half page Shorty filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 10-21-07.

2 page text story "Dark Guilt"

Genre adventure
Script Murray Boltinoff (signed as Blair Bolton)
Letters typeset

10 page The Vigilante story "Three's a Crowd"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre western
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)

8 page Zatara story "Day of Wishes"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils William F. White
Inks William F. White